Word: tabloidizing
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...Chicago, in director Rob Marshall's bold, strutting, rapaciously funny version, puts the cynicism up front, where it can titillate, horrify and instruct us. The movie cheerfully displays the backstabbing and lies--the desperation to be No. 1 and have everyone else be zero--that go into making the tabloid and celluloid shams that beguile...
Burrell is still devoted to Diana--besotted is more like it--and to the Queen. Though he sold his story for $650,000 to a British TV network and the Mirror, a London tabloid, he carefully protected Diana's and the Queen's reputations as he blabbed, and even turned down a rival offer of $3 million to dish all the dirt he knew...
...biggest reserves in the world," Yasser said. When I asked Lina Ibrahim's younger sister, Zina, 21, a translator, how she could actually believe that President Bush actually was planning to bomb schools and hospitals and kill Iraqi civilians, she replied, "I read it in Babil" - the tabloid daily newspaper run by Saddam's son Uday...
...their sale. He insisted he was merely safeguarding her image by keeping the belongings in his loyal hands. Now that he's been acquitted of the charges after the Queen stepped in to defend him, Burrell is profiting not from Diana's belongings but from her life story. The tabloid Daily Mirror has paid him a reported $400,000 for exclusive details of Diana's life, and he is singing like a canary, claiming that Diana smuggled lovers into her home while dressed in little more than a fur coat. Sparing the royal family, Burrell is instead indicting Diana...
...Manchester United. Their combined profiles and incomes made her the target of a shadowy group of alleged art thieves who plotted to take hostage her and her two sons Brooklyn and Romeo for close to $8 million. The plot was foiled after Scotland Yard was tipped off by the tabloid News of the World, whose reporters had infiltrated the cabal. The thwarted kidnapping allowed tabloid reporters to revert to more fan-friendly matters. First came reports that Victoria had signed a new recording contract in an attempt to restart her solo career. That was followed by news that...